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Overview
Insider threats continue to be a significant cybersecurity threat within organizations, although often overlooked. In fact, in the past two years, insider threat incidents increased by 44%, and the annual cost of those threats increased from $11.45 million to $15.38 million. Insider threat risks are clearly an area that organizations need to address.
Join our webinar to learn about the benefits of a modern, people-centric approach to insider threats and data loss. Hear insights from the Ponemon 2022 Cost of Insider Threats Report and understand what the data means for your organization.
You will learn:
• How to recognize the three insider threat profiles and why they are trending up
• The importance of context to understand people risk
• Real-world examples of insider threat scenarios and their implications
• How to build an ITM program tailored to business outcomes
Moderator
Alex Grohmann – Founder, Sicher Consulting

Alex Grohmann has over two decades of experience in technology-related information security, risk management and data privacy. During his career, he has worked at both the state and Federal level, and his private sector involvement has spanned from energy to financial services. He is the founder and operator of Sicher Consulting, LLC. Mr. Grohmann holds industry certifications of CISSP, CISA, CISM and CIPT. He holds two undergraduate degrees from Florida State University as well as an MBA from UMUC.
Mr. Grohmann is a Fellow at the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), an international organization of information security professionals. He is the recipient of their international ‘Honor Roll’ for his lifetime contributions to the information security community. He has served on the board of directors for the Northern Virginia chapter of ISSA for over ten years, including as president for three. During his time, the chapter won the Chapter of Year.
He is a graduate of the FBI’s Citizens’ Academy and served on the board of directors for the Washington DC chapter of InfraGard for four years. Currently Mr. Grohmann serves on the board directors of Northern Virginia Community College’s Workforce Development taskforce, NOVA Cybersecurity Advisory Board and is a mentor at MACH 37, the Virginia cyber security accelerator. He also sits on the IT sector coordinating council (IT-SCC).
Speaker/s
Stephanie Torto – Senior Product Marketing Manager, Proofpoint
Stephanie is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Proofpoint, where she is responsible for the messaging and positioning of its Insider Threat Management and Endpoint Data Loss Prevention solutions. Before joining Proofpoint, Stephanie held a variety of roles spanning product marketing, client research, and market strategy at IBM. Prior to IBM, Stephanie spent several years as an industry analyst at IDC, providing insights and advice on market trends and industry dynamics to executives at leading technology and IT services firms. Stephanie holds a BA degree from Union College and an MBA from Babson College.
See Stephanie Torto‘s full profile.
Brian Reed – Sr. Director, Cybersecurity Strategy, Proofpoint
Brian Reed is a Cybersecurity Evangelist for Insider Threat at Proofpoint. He comes to Proofpoint from Gartner where he focused on a wide variety of topics – cloud security, data security, incident response, insider threats and security awareness. Since 2015, he published over 50 thought-leading research notes at Gartner, including Cool Vendors reports, Market Guides for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Services and Security Awareness Training, Risk Management research, as well as the last two Gartner Magic Quadrants for Enterprise DLP.
Previous to Gartner, he spent over 15 years in a variety of business development, product management, sales and system engineering roles, at companies including Sourcefire (acquired by Cisco), HP, McAfee and Internet Security Systems (acquired by IBM). He is well known in the information security industry and has spoken at numerous Gartner events, as well as other industry events globally. Brian also serves as an advisory board member and holds a BA degree from The University of Georgia and an MBA from Kennesaw State University.
ISSA Webinars and Conference series cover all the continuing education credits to maintain your cyber security certifications. (CPEs, CEUs, ECE, etc). Each hour is equal to one continuing education credit. Certificates of completion are available upon request after completion. For instructions, click here.

